Special Districts (With John Oliver)
Special Districts in the US are
governmental units held to provide special services to the people living within
the borders of the districts. The first SDs (Special District) was built in
California in 1887 and it was an irrigation district. In the second part of the
20th Century, Special Districts proliferated a lot, we can find more than 40000
of them now and you can live in many SDs in one time.
SDS are special taxing district as they are allowed to co tax to fulfill a special purpose. They have collected more than B$ 100 which is more than Russia military spending by B$16.
There are different types of: Irrigation District, Fire District, Mosquito District, Lighting District..
See more on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special-purpose_district
John Oliver was joking about the Mayor of West Suburban Evergreen who was recovering from a mosquito bite while he was living in the middle of four SDs dedicated to Mosquito.
SDS is a form of ghost government because it lacks a lot of transparency, few people are hearing about them, and fewer are running them. John Oliver gave the example of Mosquito Control SDS run by 2 men that did all the formalities in a scrupulous way and published in a 43min video on youtube that was literally watched by no-one. Another example is Conroe in Texas where a company hoped to create a special district to issue bonds on undeveloped land but as there was nobody living there, they brought a couple that will live there for 9 months and vote for M$ 500 worth of bonds for their housing project. So basically, they will vote for a M$ 500 project and leave the place..
The participation rate for special district election is as low as 1.8% as election are held every 10.9 business days on average with no one taking place on Election Day
See what is Election Day on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Day_(United_States)
So, the number of SDS is growing steadily and many of old SDS continue to exist only because when they were created, no disbanding process was made.
SDS are special taxing district as they are allowed to co tax to fulfill a special purpose. They have collected more than B$ 100 which is more than Russia military spending by B$16.
There are different types of: Irrigation District, Fire District, Mosquito District, Lighting District..
See more on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special-purpose_district
John Oliver was joking about the Mayor of West Suburban Evergreen who was recovering from a mosquito bite while he was living in the middle of four SDs dedicated to Mosquito.
SDS is a form of ghost government because it lacks a lot of transparency, few people are hearing about them, and fewer are running them. John Oliver gave the example of Mosquito Control SDS run by 2 men that did all the formalities in a scrupulous way and published in a 43min video on youtube that was literally watched by no-one. Another example is Conroe in Texas where a company hoped to create a special district to issue bonds on undeveloped land but as there was nobody living there, they brought a couple that will live there for 9 months and vote for M$ 500 worth of bonds for their housing project. So basically, they will vote for a M$ 500 project and leave the place..
The participation rate for special district election is as low as 1.8% as election are held every 10.9 business days on average with no one taking place on Election Day
See what is Election Day on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Day_(United_States)
So, the number of SDS is growing steadily and many of old SDS continue to exist only because when they were created, no disbanding process was made.
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